Verse 12

In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

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  • Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, who minister before the LORD, weep between the portico and the altar. Let them say, 'Spare your people, LORD. Do not make your heritage an object of scorn, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, “Where is their God?”'
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Shave your head bald and cut off your hair because of your precious children. Make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they have been taken away from you into exile.
  • Joel 1:13 : 13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
  • Jas 4:8-9 : 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
  • Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, you rich people, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'
  • Jonah 3:6 : 6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
  • 2 Chr 35:25 : 25 Jeremiah composed laments for Josiah, and all the male and female singers have sung about Josiah in their laments to this day. These became a tradition in Israel and are written in the Laments.
  • Ezra 9:3 : 3 When I heard this, I tore my garment and my robe, pulled out some of the hair from my head and beard, and sat down appalled.
  • Neh 8:9-9 : 9 Then Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all of them, 'This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.' For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law. 10 Nehemiah said, 'Go and celebrate with rich foods and sweet drinks, and send portions to those who have nothing prepared. For this day is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.' 11 The Levites calmed all the people by saying, 'Be still, for this is a holy day. Do not grieve.' 12 Then all the people went to eat, drink, send portions of food, and celebrate with great joy because they understood the words that had been made known to them.
  • Neh 9:9 : 9 You saw the oppression of our ancestors in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea.
  • Job 1:20 : 20 At this, Job got up, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell to the ground in worship.
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
  • Eccl 3:11 : 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
  • Isa 15:2 : 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off.